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Rupert Friend
Oxfordshire, England, UK
Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), w…
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Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Youth
TV show
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2026
My Notes on Mars
Movie Sam
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2025
Dreams
Movie Jake McCarthy
- 2025
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2025
Jurassic World Rebirth
Movie Martin Krebs
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2025
The Phoenician Scheme
Movie Excalibur
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2025
After This Death
Movie Ted
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2025
Companion
Movie Sergey
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2024
Canary Black
Movie David Brooks
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2024
The American Society of Magical Negroes
Movie Mick
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2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Movie Narrator / Claud (archive footage)
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2023
The Rat Catcher
Movie Claud Cubbage
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2023
The Swan
Movie Narrator / Adult Peter Watson
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2023
Asteroid City
Movie Montana
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2023
High Desert
TV show Guru Bob
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Movie Self - Grand Inquisitor
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
TV show Grand Inquisitor
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2022
Anatomy of a Scandal
TV show James Whitehouse
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2022
Last Looks
Movie Wilson Sikorsky
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2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie Drill-Sergeant
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2021
Infinite
Movie Bathurst 1985
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2021
Separation
Movie Jeff
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2021
Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
Movie Prince Albert (archive footage)
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2018
At Eternity's Gate
Movie Theo van Gogh
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2018
A Simple Favor
Movie Dennis Nylon
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2018
Strange Angel
TV show Ernest Donovan
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2017
The Death of Stalin
Movie Vasily Stalin
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2016
Dream Corp LLC
TV show Patient 62
- 2016
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2015
Hitman: Agent 47
Movie Agent 47
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2015
Meet Me in Montenegro
Movie Stephen
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2015
Stryka
Movie Callen
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2015
To Write Love on Her Arms
Movie David McKenna
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2014
Starred Up
Movie Oliver Baumer
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2013
The Zero Theorem
Movie TV Presenter
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2012
Stars in Shorts
Movie Director
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2011
Homeland
TV show Peter Quinn
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2011
5 Days of War
Movie Thomas Anders
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2010
Jolene
Movie Coco Leger
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2010
Lullaby for Pi
Movie Sam
